preshaping

Verb

preshape (third-person singular simple present preshapes, present participle preshaping, simple past and past participle preshaped)

1. (transitive) To shape in advance.
   • In “Burger Bar” (Wiley, 2009), Hubert Keller writes that what you do not want is preshaped burgers or meat that is stuffed and compacted into plastic packaging.2009 July 1, Jane Sigal, “The Perfect Burger and All Its Parts”, in New York Times